The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister is an art gallery housed in the

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Schloss Wilhelmshöhe is a Neoclassical palace located in , a part of Kassel, Germany. It was built for Landgrave Wilhelm (William) IX of Hesse in the late 18th century. Emperor Wilhelm II made extensive use of it as a summer residence and p ...

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

in Germany. It is based on the collection of

William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel William VIII (10 March 1682 – 1 February 1760) ruled the German Landgraviate Hesse-Kassel from 1730 until his death, first as regent (1730–1751) and then as landgrave (1751–1760). Life Born in Kassel, he was the seventh son of Charles I, La ...

Works from the Gallery of the Old Masters

File:Rembrandt-self-portrait-1628.jpg, Rembrandts self-portrait File:Rembrandt Winterlandschap 1646.jpg, Rembrandts "Winterlandscape" File:Nicolas Poussin - Bacchic Scene - WGA18268.jpg, "Bacchic Scene" by Nicolas Poussin File:Albrecht Altdorfer - Christus am Kreuz mit Maria und Johannes (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel).jpg, "Kreuzigung" Albrecht Altdorfer, 1515-1516 File:Anthonis van Dyck 026.jpg, "Frans Snyders" and his wife, Anthonis van Dyck, 1st third of 17th century File:Albrecht Dürer 073.jpg, "Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher" from 1499 in the "Gallery of the Old Masters". This work of Albrecht Dürer was reproduced on the West German Banknote of 20 Marks File:Die Kindheit des Jupiter.tif, ''

Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia ''Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia'' or ''The Childhood of Jupiter'' is a 17th-century painting by Jacob Jordaens, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Germany. It shows the infant Jupiter being raised by the nymph Adrasteia ...

'' by

Jacob Jordaens Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Fle ...

, 17th century.

External links

Staatliche Museen Kassel

Material in the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
on the site of the Sammlung Duncker der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (PDF; 254 k; 260 kB) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel) Art museums and galleries in Kassel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel